Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Daniel Martin, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: My... it's been a while since I was investigating perl internals (writing C code that was callable from perl) - at least two years, which

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:38:45PM -0500, Richard Kaszeta wrote: Christopher J. Fearnley writes (Re: Serious performance bug in Perl): to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Performance improved several hundred-fold. So I believe

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel == Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel It's a perl thing. I can almost guarantee it. The Daniel problem is perl's shadow password support and it's getpw* Daniel functions. Whenever these functions are called

Re: YA tkdesk, for unstable.

1998-05-07 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ever have one of those days, when nothing goes right? tkdesk 1.0p1-1 had some annoying packaging errors (most notably a non-working menu file); annoying enough that I'm fixing them and uploading yet another tkdesk. Was I talking about having one of

Re: Packages marked as Obsolete

1998-05-05 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *** x11 Opt tkdesk 1.0b4-2.1 none this package could use blt8.0-unoff Actually, it can't, but that's because other bits of tkdesk are incompatible with tcl/tk 8.0. As the upstream source of tkdesk comes with its own blt, that's getting

Re: source packages and censorship

1998-05-01 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
I think someone already proposed this idea, and it was immediately ignored, so I'm going to suggest it again: What about a pine-installer package? This would be similar to the netscape3 and netscape4 packages of old - the user would be asked in the preinst to put the pine .orig.tar.gz, the

Re: source packages and censorship

1998-05-01 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Raul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about a pine-installer package? This would be similar to the netscape3 and netscape4 packages of old - the user would be asked in the preinst to put the pine .orig.tar.gz, the .diff.gz

Re: bzip2 for source packages?

1998-04-18 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
James Troup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael Alan Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Might I suggest that using it for source packaging would be appropriate, though? I seem to remember that there was some legal problem with using bzip2 in the US - software patent, that sort of thing. Is

Re: New fvwm95 into unstable

1998-04-15 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SNIP Personally, I am inclined to think that if your release fixed bugs, and introduced not too many new features, it should go into frozen. SNIP And now it's just done that - 2.0.43b-4 is in incoming heading for frozen, but you probably saw

Re: New fvwm95 into unstable

1998-04-13 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Daniel == Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel I'd also recommend that people upgrading directly from bo Daniel upgrade to this package instead of the one in frozen, as this Daniel package's preinst cleans up the old bo

What exactly belongs in frozen?

1998-04-10 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
I had originally posted this to debian-private, but in the interest of getting more feedback (and timely feedback, since if this is going into frozen it needs to go *soon*) I'm re-posting it here. (It probably belongs here anyway, as it's not really a closed maintainers-only issue, but more of a